Quick Start Guide : U-Disk based P10 LED controller card

— March 23, 2017

ZH-UN P10 LED Display Controller Card

LED sign board design was never so easy, all thanks to low cost LED controller cards available easily through various vendors. I recently grabbed one such LED panel controller module called ZH-UN from this vendor in India for Rs. 800 ($10). This controller card is designed to work with single color P10 and similar display panels. It has 2 HUB12 interface ports and can control LED display size of up to 320×32 led pixels.

Designed using ATSAMD21G17 Microcontroller, it’s an U-Disk based controller card that means you just have to plug in an USB flash drive (aka Pen Drive) with appropriate file downloaded onto it and you can have fully functional LED sign board. It uses USB host peripheral of the SAMD21 MCU and stores the data onto the on board EEPROM for future usage. It supports multiple languages, timer, clock and multiple animation effects all configurable through a software. Here I am trying to give a quick start tutorial to design your first P10 Panel based LED sign board.

STEP – 1
You must have following set of minimal required hardware to follow this tutorial :

STEP #2 Download & Install the LED designer software program

STEP #3 Design your own custom signboard content

Go to Configure option in the Menu Bar and choose Screen Settings to configure the Hardware type and other project related details : Pass word is 168

Choose appropriate options as per your project settings. Set proper resolution if you are using more than one P10 panels in cascade

Design your signboard using various options available in the software and download the data to USB flash drive using the icon in the upper right corner as shown in the image

Once data is downloaded onto the USB disk drive remove the drive from your PC and connect it to P10 controller card. If everything goes well you should see your configured data on the display.

If you have any specific questions related to the usage of LED Control System software please drop a comment below and I will try to resolve it as soon as possible. I hope that this quick start guide is helpful in getting started with P10 LED display systems.